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ATTACHMENT FOR PIANO GASES. No. 430,571. Patented June 17, 1890.

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UNITED STATES JACOB J. ELIAS, or CHICAGO,ILLINOIS, ASS1GNOR 'ro SAME PLACE.

PATENT OFFICE.

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ATTACHMENT FOR PIANO-GAS Es.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 430,571, dated June 17, 1890.

Application filed December 21, 1889- Serial No. 335,174. (No model.) 7

To aIZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JACOB J. ELIAS, a citizen of theUnited States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Attachments for Pianos, which are fully set forth in the following specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part hereof, and in which Figure 1 is a front view of an upright piano, showing the same provided with my attachment, one on each end of the piano, and whereof one is shown in an open and the other in a closed position. Fig. 2 shows a crosssection of my device on a plane 1 1 of Fig. 1, taken at right angles to the plane of the paper.

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The object of my invention is to provide pianos, and particularly upright pianos and organs, as well as other constructions of similar instruments, with a device to hold a quantity of sheet-music where it shall be most conveniently accessible, and which at the same time shall not be in the way of the player, and also be ornamental, or at least not unsightly, on an instrument, and to attain the said desired ends I construct my new attachment for said. purposes in substantially the following manner, namely: Under the projecting shelf or part a of an upright piano 1), and near its outer ends and within the pillars orlegs (l, Iattach a portfolio or cabinet 0, made either so as to be a fixed-and permanent part of the instrument, or preferably, as here shown, so as to be removable. In the latter case the said device is either provided with a back and top, or one of said parts, from which fastening devices pass into the instrument, as dowel-pins or screws e, as here shown. Be tween the sides f is placed a door g, secured on hinges h attached to the outer edge of the base of the cabinet, said base preferably being made so as to project less than the upper end, thereby placing the door, when closed, at an angle, as shown. To the said door are attached pockets j, to receive the sheets of music which they are designed to hold. A spring k is attached to the door 9, which helps to catch or other suitable device is placed at the upper edge of the door to hold and lock it.

This device may also be attached to the wellknown square or grand piano, either in this form or slightly modified, as by making it much shorter and placing the door at a cor- 6o respondingly greater vertical position, so that the parts g and j practically become drawers within the case a.

I am aware that there are piano attachments of somewhat similar form; but their doors extend across the entire front of the instrument, and such attachments form a part of the piano-case. The door or lid of such attachments cannot be left open when the player is seated at the instrument, because it is in the way of the necessary free use of the feet and legs of the person when playing, and the lid is in such position and form as to be cumbersome and difficult to manage, objections from which my device is free. It being on each side of the playerthe cabinet may be left open, and is then exceedingly convenient and useful, and on account of its lightness,

as well as convenient location, which fact,

together with the help of the internal spring 70, makes the operations of the parts very easy. By making the door g and its pockets j i11- clined, so that its upper edge is directly under the front edge of the board a, the lowerparts of the cabinet are out of the way of the legs 8 5 of the player when moving out of his seat sidewise, who is therefore far less liable to injure himself. Another advantage of this construction is that the upper edge of the door need not be opened so far as it would be 0 if it were a part of the vertical and front wall of the instrument, and therefore necessarily much farther back, and, finally, when the door of the cabinet is inclined, as shown, it

does not disfigure the piano asavertical door 5 to a removable cabinet would do; but, on the contrary, it becomes an ornamental as well as useful article features which no other device heretofore made for similar purposes possesses.

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I am aware that there is a device for like purposes in the front wall and under the keyboard of a piano; but this is a part of the instrument and must be made with it, and cannot be made as a separate part which may be removed at any time; that it is for these reasons,also, far more expensive as Well asineonvenient, because the door will have to be opened far more to the horizontal position than in my device to get into the cabinet, and thus its contents are brought inconvenicntly close to the floor, whereby its use becomes far more laborious than when constructed on my plan.

lVhat I claim is In combination with a piano havin g the horizontally-projeeting shelf a, and a vertical wall at the rear edge of said shelf, so as to form a right-angled corner under said shelf,.an uninclosed cabinet 0, having fixed top and back walls adapted to fit into said corner, whereof said walls are provided with fastening devices, 

